AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3069 points

4392 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points

5377 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points

4064 points

60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points

3979 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points

148.95 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3526 points

8091 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1224 points

1373 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3621 points

7100 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1212 points

1291 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

530th of 1,089

401st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5300U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.